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30 "Ambassadors" Quotes

"I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that."

--- Aaron Allston

#Failing #When All Else Fails #Fire

"The future does not belong to those who attack our Embassies and Consulates and kill our Ambassadors. The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you and wreak havoc and destruction upon your existence."

--- Allen West

#Visits You #Embassy #Bald Eagle

"Ambassador Winters, allow me to introduce my aunt Abby and her....boyfriend.' Townsed tensed. Abby glared. And Rebecca Baxter looked like she was going to choke on her chewing gum."

--- Ally Carter

#Abby #Winter #Introducing

"It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world."

--- Ambrose

#People #Sin #Messengers

"EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador."

--- Ambrose Bierce

#Ambassadors #Exile #Country

"If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave."

--- Anastas Mikoyan

#Ambassadors #Turns #Ifs

"When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better."

--- Andrew Young

#People #Asks #College

"There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say."

--- Andrew Young

#People #Advise #United

"I'm a global ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and United for Wildlife and I am also a Unicef UK ambassador. It's important to me to support charities. I never want to take my wealth for granted."

--- Andy Murray

#United #World #Ambassadors

"The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I took two weeks, eleven years ago and I went. I wasn't an Ambassador or anything I just asked to go and I was allowed to go. It was like someone smacked me in the face."

--- Angelina Jolie

#Two Weeks #Eleven #Sierra Leone

"My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can`t find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I`m simply not excited about anything. I`m not excited about going to a film set."

--- Angelina Jolie

#I Can #Made #Goodwill

"Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world."

--- Ann Veneman

#Empathy #Global Citizen #Approach

"I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry."

--- Anne Waldman

#Self #Ambassadors

"An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot."

--- Xenocrates

#Riot #Ambassadors #Study

"One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent."

--- Usain Bolt

#Involved #Clothing Line #Retiring

"Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden."

--- Argus Hamilton

#Legends #Birth Rate #Tennis

"God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said."

--- Quentin Crisp

#Said #Territory #Ambassadors

"Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance."

--- Queen Rania of Jordan

#Ambassadors #Tolerance #Traveler

"Phil [Mickelson] has done a great job. He's a great player and he's conducted himself very well through the years. He's been a good ambassador for the game. He hasn't won in a while, but he still has time, and it wouldn't surprise me if he won again."

--- Arnold Palmer

#Surprise #Stills #Done

"He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes."

--- Zack Snyder

#Book #Comic Book #Made

"A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors."

--- Arthur Miller

#Little Man #Ambassadors #Bigs

"I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place. It's coming from an ignorant place. I can sort of be an ambassador in a subtle way to say, "This is what I am: a comedian, a show host, a writer." It will still always be part of the conversation and people will want to focus on it because there is a culture that is so embedded that if you have a disability, you're someone to be either admired just for living, or be pitied for having to struggle."

--- Zach Anner

#People #I Can #Feels

"The problems of tribal conflicts in Kenya are much older, caused by the former colonial power. A former American ambassador there once wrote about how the CIA has contributed to the divisions between Kenyans."

--- Yoweri Museveni

#Division #Kenya #Conflict

"As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing."

--- Ashley Greene

#Honored #Cognizant #Abuse

"As a Goodwill Ambassador for YouthAIDS, I've learned that the face of AIDS is increasingly young and female. By educating young people and empowering them to make the right choices we can stop the spread of HIV/AIDS"

--- Ashley Judd

#People #Spread #Goodwill

"My dad is an ambassador. My brother is a diplomat. I doubt that I could be doing anything else other than being a diplomat if I weren't in showbiz. It's in the genes!"

--- Woody Milintachinda

#My Dad #Ambassadors #Genes

"Every time I meet an ambassador, I bring to the a table a list of NGOs I think are acting against Israel, promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) or denouncing our soldiers. I ask from them to stop contributing to these specific NGOs. But, unfortunately, it does not help. I do not want countries that are friends of ours to contribute to such organizations."

--- Ayelet Shaked

#Thinking #Asks #Lists

"Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."

--- Winston Churchill

#People #December #War

"You are here to step into the shoes of UN ambassadors - to draft resolutions, to plot strategy, to negotiate with your allies as well as your adversaries. Your goal may be to resolve a conflict, to cope with a natural disaster or to bring nations together on an issue like climate change. You may be playing a role, but you are also preparing for life. You are acting as global citizens."

--- Ban Ki-moon

#Resolution #Global Citizen #Steps

"I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States."

--- Barbara Mikulski

#Usa #United #United States

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